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P.1 reads: "Magdalene College Roofs and Climbs".

A diary of I.A Richards' night climbs over various buildings in Magdalene College, recounting one climb in which they got caught. Attached is a mock-serious tale of the 'devilkin' - a strange doll they managed to attach to the clock tower.

Front Cover reads: "CLARK Lectures".

Miscellaneous notes throughout on poetry and criticism, sometimes in preparation for a lecture, including a commentary on Paradise Lost.

P.1 reads: "Finally in 1868 he gained the coveted summit".

Essay on mountaineering followed by miscellaneous notes.

Inscribed 'W. K. A. Richards'. A diary in which to record climbs, likely shared between Ivor and his brother, William Kenneth A. Richards, owing to two styles of handwriting throughout.

Information on the climbs includes the weather, orientation and planning, the remarks and actions of company, landmarks along the way, and events of interest e.g. a 'Narrow escape from falling boulder' on August 3rd, 1909. Climbs take place in North Wales, Dartmoor, and frequently the Alps.

'Note on Rational Double Planes', by D.W. Babbage extracted from the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 8, Part 2. Received 3 February 1933, read 16 February 1933.

Note about the sale of land. Relates to MCAD/4/1/17/1, 7, 8.

Numbers 23 and 28 Hertford Street were bequeathed to Magdalene College by Sir Stephen Gaselee.

28 Hertford Street was sold on 7 February 2011.

The file consists of:
(1) Exhibition booklet

A bill for newspapers for £ 15s 0d is entered in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/3] but is missing from the bundle.

[printed form completed by hand]

General Post Office London

Revd Bursar Magd College for John Briggs
1778

Jan 5 [St Thomas?] thro to April 5 - £0 14s 6d
Received April 1778 William Gregory

Revd above is your account which please to pay to Mr W. Gregory or Order & you will oblige your most obedient servant
John Briggs

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Col. To Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 10 Oct 1794 to 5 Jan 1795 = £0 17s 6d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe And you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Content [signed] Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1795 to 10 Oct 1795 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Contents Mr Rofe

[on the reverse is written 'No. 8 Newspapers' but '8' is struck through and replaced with 7]

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. to Charles Coltson, General Post Office, London

To News-papers,
From 10 October 1795 to 5 January 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the contents [signed] Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

News-papers
From 5 Jan 1796 to 5 Apr 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe And you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Content [signed] Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. to Charles Coltson, General Post Office, London

To News-papers,
From 5 Apr 1796 to 5 July 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant

CHARLES COLTSON

Received the contents [signed] Mr Rofe

[Printed bill completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. To Charles Coltson, General-Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1796 to 10 Oct 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
Charles Coltson

Received the contents Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. To J. Hobart Briggs, General Post Office, London

To Newspapers,
From 5 April 1813 to 5 July 1813 = £1 6s 0d

Please to pay the above to Mr Brown and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
J. HOBART BRIGGS

Clerk of the Yarmouth Road

Paid to Brown

File related to legal matters concerning the installation of the new organ including correspondence with the Archdeacon and solicitors.

(1) Specification for the new organ and associated building works by Martin Stancliffe, Architects

(2) plans and drawings:

• site location and access
• scaffold access
• stair and balustrade
• electrical scheme
• plan of existing loft support structure
• plan of existing loft level, chapel organ loft
• plan of new upper floor - phase one and phase two
• timber frames
• fixed and removeable boards

(3) Estimate from T. Trenchard, organ builder

(4) 21 colour photographs of the dismantling of the old organ and the installation of the new one

File concerning the inauguration of the new chapel organ:

(1) invitation to the inauguration and recital by Gustav Leonhardt, 3 Feb 2001

(2) programme for the inaugural concert

(3) postcards showing the new organ in the Chapel with details printed on the back

(4) three colour photographs of the organ

(5) programme for a recital by Stephen Farmer, 27 Feb 2001

(6) Chapel Term Card for Lent Term 2001 featuring the Chapel organ

File containing:

(1) front elevation, section and plan

(2) wind system of the organ

(3) console section

(4) mouldings

File containing correspondence between Goetze and Gwynn and Dr Richard Luckett about the requirements for the new organ. Also publicity material for the firm including postcards of organs they had built, and a draft contract.

File containing:

(1) Chapel Affairs Committee paper on the Ecclesiastical Exemption and future improvements to the College Chapel

(2) Copy of the minutes of the Governing Body Committee meeting at which this was discussed

(3) Background on the organ

(4) Design of the new organ by Goetze and Gwynn, Feb 1999

File containing reports and correspondence about the Hunter Organ and whether it should be replaced. Includes:

(1) a report on the existing organ, including details of its maker and subsequent rebuildings, by the Revd Dr N.J. Thistlethwaite (Tutor and Chaplain, Gonville and Caius), 1988

(2) discussions about how to replace the organ including the suggestion of buying an organ from Nettlecombe (which proved unsuitable)

(3) decision to commission the firm Goetze and Gwynn to build a new one

Three letters from Crowland Abbey to Stephen Farmer about the installation of the mixture from the old chapel organ in the parish church and how well it was working and the choir were responding.

File containing correspondence between Martin Stancliffe, Architect and Dr Richard Luckett about removing the old organ and installing the new one.

Includes a list of benefactors and plans for the benefactors plaque.

Specification of works in constructing a new roadway to the Master's Lodge, including forming a new entrance gateway in Magdalene Street and other work in connection at Magdalene College.